Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: bookmarks The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while concurrently expanding more unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The much but short advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage miniatures developed by New Offer Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
It is a historical impressive that focused on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most probably crucial and famous men of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a full success, nor among his finest motion pictures, I still locate it to be extra entertaining than most of junk Hollywood blacks out on an once a week basis.
Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Aviator attempts to remain up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself in the air only a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros